Rod supporting bracket



May 19, 1931. E, REYNOLDS 1,805,742

ROD SUPPORTING BRACKET Filed Jan. 21, 1950 Patented May 19,, 1931 Enwm REYNOLDS, or VINELAN'D, NEW JERSEY BOD SUPPORTING BRACKET I Application filed January 21, 1980. Serial No." 422,300.

The present invention has reference to improvements 1 in towel bar supporting brackets and the like, and relates more particularly to a novel construction of the i bracket and its bar holding part.

One object of my invention is the provision of a bracket with a self adjustable bar size holders for towel bars'and the like.

Another object of my inventionis the provision of a towel bar bracket with self adjustable holders which would support substantially an indefinite number of various sizes of towel bars.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a bracket with self adjustable bar holders which will hold any size bar regardless of diameter of the said bar up to the full spread of the saidself adjustable holders.

A further object of my invention is the provision of such a bracket without using any more material than isnow used for the conventional type now in use, thereby providing a substantial, compact, simple and practical towel bar bracket with self adjustable bar holders and cheap to manufacture of a single piece of material such as spring sheet metal, thereby simplifying the construction and reducing the cost of.

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1th these ob ects in V ew my lnvention consists in the construction, arrangement,

and cooperation of the parts as will now,

be described in detail in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. l is aplan view of the blank stamped out of suitable sheet material; Fig. 2 shows the blank partly shaped, and Fig. 3 shows it in a still more advanced stage of shaping; Fig. a shows the final shape of the device, with the rod-clamping 1 members convergently bent inwardly to form a floating seat for the rod tobe supported; Figs. 5 and 6 are side views on a reduced scale, of the head portion of the device, showing how the rod-clamping members adjust themselves to rods of different diameters.

The improved rod holder is formed from a blank body 7 stamped out of suitable strip her 19.

stock, preferably sheet metal. Neareach extremity one or more holes 8 are punched out, and by means of U-shaped incisions 10, 10 opposed spring tongues 9, 9-are severed from the metal strip, with their free ends 16 facing each other and'at their respective other ends in integral connection with the strip body, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The free tongue ends are inter spaced in the plane of the body by the space 11, and as explained further down, serve as rod seat proper.

The strip is then arcuately curved at its middle section along transverse lines 17 17, as shown in Fig. 2, to then form a semicircular bulge 18, with the section 11 forming the outermost "portion and the spring tongues following this strip curva ture. The free ends of the strip body are sharply bent on lines 12, 12 in respectively opposed outward directions, to form perforated lugs 13, by means of which the device is secured to a wall or other fixed sup port, the holes 8 serving for the passage therethrough of nails or screws.

The bulged body strip is then bent double with the shank portions 14, '14 in spaced parallelism and the bulge portion now forming a more or less closed annulus or-head 19 (Fig. 3), the spring tongues 9, 9 still following the ourvature oi the body strip. In the final shaping step the spring tongues are bent inwardly on transverse lines 15, 15, converging'toward their free ends to form between their facing arcuately curved portions 20, 20 a self-adjusting,

' floating hearing or scatter the rod to be suspended; The respective rearward tongue 'portions 21,21 are in relative angular ex- In Fig. 5 I have shown how a rod 23 of relatively small diameter is securely clamped between the cooperating spring members 9, 9, and in Fig. 6 how they readily adjust themselves for the seizure of a rod of consi'derably larger cross-section. Obviously,

the largestsize of rod mayi be that ofthe Prue",

inner diameter of the annular head 19, the spring tongues then completely receding into the body member, flush therewith but still exerting clamping purchase on the supported rod.

Although I lave shown in the drawings a preferred form of my invention by way of example, I want it particularly understood that I do not limit myself to this shape 79 bracket with adjustable bar holders, but

reserve unto myself tl e right to vary the shape within certain limits of what is disclosed and what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

\Vhat I claim is 1. In a supporting bracket with self adjustable holders for towel bars a sheet metal blank having cut out U shaped bodies within its outer edges said bodies having free ends disposed towards each other and in the same plane, said bodies being spaced apart by an intervening stripef metal at their free ends and integral with the body at their opposite ends, said bodies being 5 exactly alike, said sheet blank body being folded upon itself to form a head with U shaped semicircular bodies with parallel arms at right angles to the semicircular bodies, said arms being integral with the o9 bracket supports, and said supports having fastening plates with apertures for screws to mount same.

2. A red supporting bracket of the character set forth, forn'ied from a single body strip of sheet material bent intermediate its ends to form an annular head with the strip shanks extending rearwardly in substantial parallelism and each perforated shank end bent rectangularly to the plane of 4 the respective shank; two opposed tongueshaped spring members of identical U-shaped conformation severed from the body of said strip with their respective bases in integral connection with the body strip and extendas ing in alinement intermediate the lateral edges of the strip; the fixed ends of said spring members extending convergingly from thebody member toward and part1 into said annular head, and the free ends thereof being opposedly arcuately curved for self-adjusting rod-suspending cooperation.

EDWIN REYNOLDS. 

